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Intensified bombing inevitably brings intensified "collateral damage," and NATO Friday was investigating Serb reports that 50 refugee civilians were killed and as many wounded after the alliance dropped eight cluster bombs on a village near the Kosovo city of Prizren. Images of civilian casualties function as a kind of counterweight to the refugees' tales of trauma, adding to the pressure for a diplomatic solution. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin heads back to Belgrade next week, this time accompanied by Finland's president, Martti Ahtisaari, who is reportedly acting as an envoy for the Western powers. With talks about talks continuing...
...heavy bombing overnight Wednesday, encouraged no doubt by signs that Milosevic's will to resist may be crumbling. Belgrade Thursday upped its official casualty toll in the conflict to 1,200 killed and 5,000 wounded, double the previous figures -- the enlargement may be designed to prepare the Serbs for a compromise by Milosevic. For NATO, the political dynamic may be getting easier, with 50 days of continual attacks having made the Western public more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering war over Iraq...
...withdraw all his forces -- many are involved in daily skirmishes with the Kosovo Liberation Army along the Albanian border -- but any significant retreat will sharply raise pressure on NATO to call off the bombers. "Last week President Clinton said bombing could stop only if there was a substantial Serb withdrawal, and Milosevic seems to have decided this would be an advantageous time to press NATO into negotiations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He's going to partially fulfill NATO's demands, hoping that the mounting pressure on the alliance will work in his favor." If the alliance does...
...radio station to broadcast to Yugoslavia. But winning the war--and this is a war, despite the semantic contortions of NATO and the Clinton administration--will take more than that. Suppression of the independent media is a crucial element of Milosevic's grip on power, and as long as Serb citizens are unaware of what their army is doing in Kosovo, there is little chance they will stop supporting Milosevic...
...hostilities will allow all sides to claim victory. That much was clear from the peace plan agreed to by leading NATO countries and Russia at a summit of foreign ministers in Germany on Thursday. The agreement provides for an end to violence and repression in Kosovo; the withdrawal of Serb security forces; the deployment of ill-defined "international civil and security presences" under mandate from the United Nations; the safe return of refugees under the auspices of a U.N. interim administration; an agreement for the political autonomy of Kosovo within Serbia; and the disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army...